Abu Khaldon

Abu Khaldon was a Syrian customs officer during the 1960s. He was stationed along the Lebanon-Syria border and was an old friend of the Damascus businessman Majed Sheikh al-Ard, and he met with al-Ard and the undercover Mossad spy Eli Cohen (pretending to be the Syrian businessman Kamel Amin Thaabet) in 1962 when the two of them accepted Khaldon's offer to stop for tea as their papers were inspected. When Cohen saw that Syrian soldiers were inspecting his baggage and could find some potentially incriminating possessions of his, he bribed Abu Khaldon with his golden watch and told him that the soldiers might find his explicit pornography, leading to Abu Khaldon allowing Cohen to pass the border without being fully searched.